Chris Hostetter wrote:
2) On the subject of commiting and becoming a commiter: I've noticed a few questions recently about why/when patches can/will-be commited; and Yonik's new status has me wondering about how people become commiters, and what guidelines exist for commiters to know how/when to accept patches.
Personally, I nominate people to become committers when I see a sequence of non-trivial, well-constructed patches that may be directly applied to resolve real issues. Another thing I watch for is are folks who know their limits. None of us are expert at everything. Thus I appreciate it when folks show caution in proposing patches, and then respectfully and patiently listen to other's concerns. We need committers who can discuss, not argue.
Formally, the process is that someone nominates, and the PMC votes. When Lucene was part of Jakarta we used to just have the committers vote, since we had little contact with the Jakarta PMC. But now that Lucene has its own PMC we can do it the official Apache way.
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